when Moses walked the earth, the one sea that was known to men was the Mediterranean, and perhaps some small regions of the nearby Atlantic. When the seven seas were .discovered and became known to men, it was not long before all of their magnitude had been explored by the eager inter est of humanity. Whereupon we find that Moses had apparently sailed their uncharted bosoms before our ships of discovery and search were builded and launched! We know now that the oceanography of Moses was accurate, in that the seven seas do occupy one bed. How did Moses know this? Had he discovered this fact by human wisdom and research ? The casual reader will say, That’s just a coinci dence. For the sake of that reader, we will admit that this could be a coin cidence, and look again. Our famous California scientist, Dr. Bobert Millikan, some time ago received the Nobel prize in physics for isolating the atom and making it ponderable to human vision. Dr. Mil likan, of course, did not discover the atom, nor invent the atomic theory. Men had been familiar with the the oretical existence of the atom for many years before Dr. Millikan con summated his great work. We can remember back in the days more than a score of years ago, when we at tended college. We had a professor by the name of Dr. Brooks, whom the boys facetiously called, Up and at ’em Brooks, for every time the good doc tor got up, he was sure to talk about the atom. Indeed, a lad not prepared to recite sometimes escaped the threatened doom by getting the good doctor interested in a discussion of the atomic theory. In this manner we learned a great deal about the atom, all of which, we have since found out, was not so! But that is the general fate of a college education. You spend four years learning things to pass examinations. You spend the next twenty-four years finding out that what you learned was not necessarily true! For instance, Dr. Brooks conveyed to us the dogmatic idea that the atom was the smallest divisible particle of matter that the human mind could conceive. He assured us that no eye would ever see the atom, as it was the ultimate division of matter, and man’s ingenuity would never make it visible. He gave us the idea that atoms were little solid globes of matter like ball bearings or marbles or solid rubber balls. While it is true that the atom is infinitely small, it is not the ultimate (Continued on Page 22) Page Eleven
tom of the scale of life. Coming up through the water-dwelling creatures to the lower forms of the Metazoa which dwell upon the land, the ad vancing scale of life climaxes with man. This arrangement of vital life in ascending orders, demanded by the science of biology, meets the
Undoubtedly, the heritage of the re cent years upon which we have build- ed our modern structure of super learning, has come by painstaking investigation, all of which has been demonstrated by experimentation. We must not forget, also, that as Ayers has so truthfully pointed out, Modern scientific discovery is the result of a machine technology. By that, Ayers meant to convey a picture not only of the technique but of the equipment o f modern research and study. What is the great advance in biol ogy? You might say that it was the discovery of the apparatus Golgi that fluctuates in the cytoplasm of the cell. In that case, you would be wrong. The great discovery in biology is the invention of the super-microscope that makes apparatus Golgi visible to the human eye. When we have the instru ment at our command, it is inevitable that we shall discover the things made visible by that instrument. The great advance in physics is not the splitting of the atom, but is rath er the invention of the instruments o f research which made it possible. When men have the telescope, it is only logical that the solar system dawns upon their vision and under standing. Men could not know of the exist ence of the infinitely microscopic bac teria before the microscope revealed them to human vision. Since our mod ern advancement is dependent upon instruments of precision that were totally unknown to the ancients, it follows that by wisdom and under standing alone these men of old could not have possessed our current body o f knowledge. Therefore, if these men in antiquity did write in one Book things that we are learning today with our new ma chines of investigation, the only other explanation is that an Intelligence higher than human directed their writings, and their material was de rived by revelation. So then, the greatest argument for the inspiration o f the Bible and the surest proof of its harmony with science would be to find in the pages of this ancient Book instances wherein the writers antici pated the discoveries of modern sci ence. It is possible for the careful student of science and Scripture to discover literally scores of such an ticipations! We would start, for instance, by citing the fact that in the first chap ter of Genesis, Moses divided the workdays of God into six periods of time, consummating with the crea tion of man. The modern science of biology places vegetation at the bot- A P R I L , 1 9 5 1
acquiescence of Moses, who has placed the orders of creation in the exact systematic advancement that biolo gists contend for today. The only difference between Moses and biology is that biologists contend for a super hatching process by which one order evolved from the other, while Moses, contends for the more scientific ex planation of specific creation of each order in turn. We are somewhat surprised to note that on the third of those creative days, in dealing with physical geog raphy, Moses makes this simple state ment: “ And God said, Let all the waters under the heaven be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear.” The word that Moses used in the Hebrew is maqom, and it should be literally translated, one bed. The statement of Moses, then, is that in this act of creation God gathered all of the oceans together into one bed. We suggest that the reader take his globe of the earth and trace his finger from point to point, journeying from sea to sea. The reader will find that Moses was literally and scientifically accurate in this simple statement. All the waters under the heavens are gathered together into one place. Moses was careful, however, to keep the oceans separated, in that he put them in the plural in the statement, “And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas.” In the day
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